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November 25, 2014

2015 Hall of Fame - preview

The BBWAA ballot for 2015 induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame is out. As I did last year, I’m going to publish my ballot in three stages. First I will evaluate all the former Red Sox players. I will focus on new additions to the ballot as I already assessed the holdover candidates in last year’s column. I will then do the same for players of interest to Canadians – either those who were born in the Great White North, or played in Canada, as I did last year. Finally I will publish my ballot by completing it by adding other deserving candidates. Here are the names on the ballot, alphabetically: Returning candidates are indicated by showing the % votes they received last year.Red Sox Jeff Bagwell (54%) Tony Clark Roger Clemens (35%) Cliff Floyd Nomar Garciaparra Tom Gordon Pedro Martinez Curt Schilling (29%) Lee Smith (30%) John SmoltzCanadian Connections Roger Clemens (35%)
Carlos Delgado Cliff Floyd Randy Johnson Jeff Kent (15%) Edgar Martinez (25%) Pedro Martinez Fred McGriff (12%) Tim Raines (46%) Larry Walker (10%)The Rest Rich Aurilia Craig Biggio(74.8%) Barry Bonds(35%) Aaron BooneJermaine Dye Darin Erstad Brian Giles Eddie Guardado Don Mattingly (8%) Mark McGwire (11%) Mike Mussina (20%) Troy Percival Mike Piazza(62%) Jason Schmidt Gary Sheffield Sammy Sosa (7%) Alan Trammell (21%)

Just taking a quick glance I can already see 12-15 players I would put into the Hall. Once again, it will be tough to keep my ballot to 10. Stay tuned as I update my ballot over the next couple of weeks.